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Teaching with Newspapers
Use your newspaper — the most up-to-date text book you can find! Here are some teaching ideas from this month's Teacher Scoop.
More Lessons to Spark Your Students
For more ideas, search our NIE Lesson Library!
Use the Kid Scoop page as a theme for your own lesson plan. Check out topics for the month at:
www.kidscoop.com/teachers/next_on_kid_scoop/
To find helpful web sites, browse our Webliography!
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Simply go to www.kidscoop.com/shop/ —and review a free sample.
Scroll down that Web page to find a veritable treasure chest of resources. And since we add to it each week, you can always come back for more. Each set of 6 pages costs $2.99. The way it works is that you make your selection, proceed to the cart, pay with your credit card, and Eureka!—the pages are instantly available for you to download.
With this summer's Collaborative Summer Reading Program, your students can play and learn at the same time. Encourage them to join in at participating local libraries, read Kid Scoop and develop their creative talents along the way.
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Quiet Please
Have your students look through the newspaper for verbs, adjectives and adverbs that convey a mood for sleeping. Circle those words. Now have them write a paragraph using those words to describe what they do to help themselves fall asleep at night.
Standards link: Grammar: Identify and use verbs, adjectives and adverbs correctly in speech and writing.
Jazz-Up Headlines
Let your students select five headlines from the newspaper and ask them to rewrite them, and jazz them up, by using synonyms for the nouns and verbs.
Standards Link: Writing/Vocabulary: Use strategies of the writing process to write a variety of sentences.
Poetry Play
Students each use one page of the newspaper to find and circle a word that is an object. Next, have them list five adjectives that could describe that object. After that, list five action verbs. Finally, have them use all the words they listed to write a poem about the word they initially circled.
Standards Link: Writing Applications: Use stylistic aspects of writing in poetry.
Bulletin
Environmental information and issues are often in the news. Pick a topic such as alternative energy, recycling or weather, and collect articles from the newspaper over a period of time. Create a classroom bulletin board on environmental science and encourage your students to post their own photos and articles on the board as they keep up with the news.
Standards Link: Environmental Science: Understand how human actions modify the physical environment.
Kick Ball
Roll a sheet of newspaper into a ball. Divide your students into teams of four or five. Using their feet only, the students have to "kick" the ball and keep it from touching the ground. Have them count their kicks each time and try to improve on their score. Which team had the most kicks?
Standards Link: Physical Education: Use movement concepts and principles in the development of motor skills.
Your Officials
Over time, have students locate in the newspaper the names of government officials. Sort them into categories of local, regional, state and national. Have students create a flowchart showing the hierarchy that begins with local government officials and goes all the way up to the President.
Standards Links: Civics: Understand hoe the U.S. Constitution grants and distributes power and responsibilies to national and state government.
Food Jigsaw
Put students into pairs. Have each student find a food picture in the newspaper that he or she carefully cuts into six pieces. Students then exchange pieces with their partner and compete to see who can reassemble a picture first.
Standards Links: Health: Understand essential concepts about nutrition and diet.
Good Turn
The Boy Scout slogan is "Do a good turn daily." This means doing at least one thing every day to help a family member, neighbor or other person in the community. Have your students find examples of a “good turn” in your local newspaper. Write a letter to the editor thanking the person who did the good deed for making your community a better place.
Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write in a variety for forms and genres (e.g., friendly letters).
